Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Πολιτική και διαδίκτυοLibrary of the Faculties of Political Science and Public Administration, Communication and Mass Media Studies, Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Sociology
Author:
Triandafilidou Haris
Supervisors info:
Μιχάλης Ταστσόγλου, Διδάκτωρ, Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας και ΜΜΕ, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Ο Περί Μεσαίας Τάξης Λόγος στη ΔΕΘ 2017-2020
Translated title:
The Middle Class Discourse in Greece between 2017 and 2020
Summary:
The interpretative framework, according to which the government's choices during the period 2015-2019 disproportionately burdened the middle class, which expressed its dissatisfaction at the ballot box, constitutes a common denominator in the assessment of the election results. However, the existing data do not allow us to observe that the middle class, as an overall social category, withdrew its electoral support from the SYRIZA party, or that a causal relationship can be identified between the tax burden on the middle class and the election results. The economic and social elites participating in the public dialogue, despite all using the term "middle class," rely on different defining criteria when referring to it and choose to focus on different identity characteristics of these strata. This paper sheds light on the significance of the discourse about the middle class during the period of the memorandum's conclusion and in relation to the reorganization of party competition in the post-memorandum era
Main subject category:
Social, Political and Economic sciences
Keywords:
Middle class, party competition, class, class-based voting, itical discourse analysis, SYRIZA, ND, Tsipras, Mitsotakis
Number of references:
139
